商务英语：今日热词——语言大师

语言大师

(noun, INFORMAL) A person with special skill at writing well.

例句

EXAMPLE: The advertising agency had a talented wordsmith on its staff who could quickly write beautifully crafted sentences on any topic.

这家广告机构的员工中有一位天才的语言大师，能根据任何题目迅速写出文采斐然的语句。

down the drain

白白浪费的（非正式）

(INFORMAL) An adjective phrase describing anything that is lost or wasted.

EXAMPLE: We put more money into our family’s business every month, but we think it’s just money down the drain because the whole business is a hopeless disaster.

我们每月都向家族企业里投入更多的钱，但我们觉得，这纯属白白浪费，因为整个企业已经是不可救药的灾难。